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Patent GB-264444-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to suction cleaners
IPC: A47L9/04
Filed: 1926-04-26
Abstract: 264,444. Hoover, Ltd., (Assignees of White, H. B.). Jan. 12, 1926, [Convention date]. Vacuum cleaners. - The open-mouthed hood or nozzle of a vacuum cleaner contains a rotary agitator and is provided with a frame having its transverse members pivoted at their rear ends to the casing behind the nozzle and normally retaining the rotor shaft in operative position. The side arms 19 pivoted on the wheel axles 17 carry a transverse bar 18 which, when in position, forms an inclined extension of the front wall of the nozzle directing the air downwardly on the surface to be cleaned. The arms are also formed with projections 30 which co-operate with slotted plates 13 to support the brush shaft. The bar 18 carries guard fingers 23 and is provided with a latch 31 which secures the bar to the front of the nozzle.
Patent GB-769948-A (GB)
Title: Paper-making or like machines
IPC: D21F2/00
Filed: 1955-04-15
Abstract: 769,948. Couch presses of paper-making machines &c. DORRIES AKT.-GES., O. April 15, 1955 [April 15, 1954], No. 10932/55. Class 96. A couch assembly of a paper-making or like machine has three coating suction rolls 1, 2, 4, one or two of which (1, 2) lie within the wirecloth 3, and the other (4) or others outside. The rolls may be adjusted horizontally or vertically, and may have a common spur-wheel or friction drive. An outer roll 4 may lie in a loop of a felt or of a wire-cloth.
Patent GB-125543-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Controlling Mechanism for Power Presses and other purposes.
Inventor: PEACOCK ALEXANDER
IPC: G05G15/04
Filed: 1918-07-05
Abstract: 125,543. Peacock, A., and Hutchinson, T. H. July 5, 1918. Regulating-gear for winding and paying-out apparatus.-In a controlling-device for hoists, lifts, conveyers &c., having means for automatically stopping the apparatus after each operation or cycle of operations, provision is made for disconnecting the automatic means by a pedal or handlever so that the machine can operate indefinitely. A clutch-control 3 is operated by a spring-pressed slide 7 on a lever 1, the slide being retracted to release the clutch by a member 10 moving with the ram &c. of the machine. The member 10 has an inclined portion 11 to engage the slide and only operates when held up to the slide by a block 20 sliding on the lever. The block 20 is supported by a projection 15 on a member 13 connected to a pedal, and by a rod 17 to a hand-lever. When the member 13 is depressed by the pedal or is caused to recede along the lever by the rod 17, the block is unsupported and consequently the member 10 fails to stop the machine. Specifications 111,511 and 125,542 are referred to.
Patent GB-251099-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in electric heaters
IPC: F24H7/04
Filed: 1925-10-05
Abstract: 251,099. Wilkinson, G. Oct. 5, 1925. Heating by electricity.-In an electric heater of the type in which heat is stored in a tank containing water and utilized as required by passing air through ducts traversing the tank to the room to be heated the ducts are disposed horizontally and open into vertical chambers, so that air cannot pass through them by convection, a circulating fan being provided. The tank f is arranged between partitions k, k<2> in a wooden or like casing h having in its lower part an inlet opening d and outlet g. Behind the inlet d is a partition c carrying the fan b. The tank is supported on a hollow central bolt j which may contain a thermostat controlling the heating- current. Pockets l in the lower part of the tank contain the heating-elements, and the air-ducts a traverse the upper part. A thermostat in the apartment to be heated controls the fan b. The surface of the water may be covered with paraffin, oil &c., to check evaporation and a pressure-relief pipe o is provided.
Patent GB-543577-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the casting of non-ferrous metals
IPC: B22C9/06
Filed: 1940-07-01
Abstract: 543,577. Making moulds. PARLANTI, C. A., and BOWEN, E. WINDSOR-. July 1, 1940, No. 11120. [Classes 83 (i) and 83 (ii)] Moulds for casting non-ferrous metals, e.g. brass, bronze, or aluminium or magnesium or their alloys, are formed by forging, machining, or casting from aluminium or an alloy thereof, the internal surface then being anodized. The surface may be first etched or otherwise roughened and before etching may be subjected to mechanical treatment to ensure closeness of grain or smoothness of surface. The external surface may be treated similarly. After anodizing, the surface may be treated with potassium dichromate or cobalt acetate with or without potassium permanganate &c. or with water at a high temperature to ensure continuity of the oxide coating and it may be impregnated with a lubricant which will also serve to reduce porosity, e.g. graphite. When the moulds are made by casting the moulds in which they are cast may be made according to the invention.
Patent GB-615340-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in fishing reels
IPC: A01K89/01
Filed: 1946-04-10
Abstract: 615,340. Fishing-reels. JANEMIAN, J. A. April 11, 1946. No. 11165. Convention date, July 10, 1945. [Class 48] [Also in Group XXIV] The spool 59 and the flyer-drum 35 are driven from a crown wheel 8 to rotate at different speeds in opposite directions, and the flyer 48 is reciprocated by an inclined cam groove 47 in a fixed part 39. A pinion 9 meshing with the crown wheel drives the spool shaft 11 through the intermediary of a friction coupling which is adjustable by a nut 20. Toothed members 27, 28 respectively connected to the pinion and the shaft produce sound when slip occurs at the coupling. The flyer drum is driven from the crown wheel by a pinion 33. An arm on the flyer engages a spring- loaded segment 55 arranged in the cam groove so that rotation of the spool for reeling-in sets the flyer and reverse movement returns it to the inoperative position. The flyer is shaped to permit the use of two different sized spools.
Patent GB-573975-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to sensitised cloths for photo printing and photographicprocesses
IPC: G03C1/76
Filed: 1944-06-12
Abstract: 573,975. Photographic printing cloth. MASON & SONS, Ltd., E. N., and NORMAN, D. J. June 12, 1944, No. 11182. [Class 98 (ii)] A waterproof flexible film of a cellulose ester or ether, with or without a softening agent and opacifying agent, is applied to one face of a close-weave cotton fabric slightly stiffened but substantially unfilled and a sensitizing solution (iron, sepia, diazotype) is applied to the other face. The cotton fabric may be stiffened with starch and lightly calendered, and may contain titanium white or indanthrene blue. The filmforming agent may be applied in solution in a volatile solvent by spraying or by a roller or by a spreader knife. Cellulose nitrate, acetate, or acetate-butyrate, or ethyl or benzyl cellulose may be used. In example 1, starch-stiffened cotton fabric is coated on one side with cellulose nitrate and after drying on the other side with ferroprussiate solution as in Specification 462,554. In example 2, the fabric is coated on one side with ethyl cellulose and on the other with a solution comprising diazotized diphenylamine sulphate, ammonium chloride, citric acid, and boric acid. The material may be developed, in a sodium carbonate solution of phloroglucinol. According to the Provisional Specification the waterproof flexible film may be of a polymerized vinyl derivative, an acrylic resin, or a polymerized hydrocarbon such as polyvinyl acetate or chloride, polymethyl methacrylate, or polyethylene.
Patent GB-113796-A (GB)
IPC: B23G5/14
Abstract: 113,796. Wildey, E. M. Dec. 13, 1916. Taps with parallel adjustment have the chasers provided with true relief. The chasers may be formed with teeth on each face of the same pitch or different pitches. The adjustment is effected by cones e, k engaging the correspond. ingly formed ends of the chasers. The cones e are connected by grooves and spring rings h or by screws to nuts g threaded internally and externally with pitches such that the cones e, k are moved correspondingly in opposite directions. The nuts are graduated to facilitate adjustment. In a modification, projections on the ends of the chasers engage cam grooves in nuts or collars. To cut the chasers, they may be mounted in a mandrel or holder a<1>, Fig. 3, having slots to receive the chasers. The centre lines of the slots are behind the dotted radial lines so that, when the chasers are mounted for use, they are relieved as shown in Fig. 4.
Patent GB-1528534-A (GB)
Title: Process for producing a halogenated phenol and flameproofing agents produced therefrom
IPC: C07C301/00
Filed: 1976-03-22
Abstract: 1528534 Preparation of halogenated phenols DYNAMIT NOBEL AG 22 March 1976 [22 March 1975] 11392/76 Heading C2C Halogenated phenols are produced by reacting phenol with bromine chloride in a halogenated organic solvent, e.g. 1,2-dichloroethane and in the presence of a halogenation catalyst, e.g. iron or iron halide or ferric chloride to form a reaction mixture including the desired product. The compounds may be used to produce flameproofing agents for incorporating in polymers.
Patent GB-852842-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for measuring properties of finely divided solid materials
IPC: G01N23/22
Filed: 1959-04-03
Abstract: 852,842. Rotary conveyers. STAMICARBON N.V. April 3, 1959 [April 3, 1958; Feb. 6, 1959], No. 11445/59. Class 78 (I). In apparatus for determining the quality of finely divided solids by means of electromagnetic or corpuscular radiation, e.g. the ash content of coal samples by Roentgen ray absorption, the substance deposited at A on a table 1 rotating in the direction of the arrow is carried into the jaws 6 of a mixing device 5 from which it emerges as an elongated layer of substantially uniform width and thickness and having a smooth upper surface for presentation to a radiation source 3 and a detector 4. The jaws 6 are connected by bars 7 which support ploughs 9 bearing on the table. The material leaving the jaws is levelled by a vertical plate 10 and any surplus is removed by suction devices 11. Another suction device 12 removes the whole of the sample when required. After the sample has passed through the mixer a few times and become thoroughly mixed, the ash content can be derived fairly accurately from the average value of tHe signals emitted by the detector 4.
Patent GB-336599-A (GB)
Title: An improved method of conserving heat in a steam power plant
IPC: F01K9/00
Filed: 1929-04-13
Abstract: 336,599. Steam Heat Conservation Co., Ltd., Anderson, H. P. H., and McCullum, J. April 13, 1929. Engines working on special systems or cycles.-In the apparatus described in Specification 254,874 for partially condensing engine exhaust and returning it to the boiler the exhaust is led into a tubular cooler d containing tubes cooled by sprays of water, instead of into a jacketed receiver. The steam is passed through an oil separator c before entering the cooler and is drawn from the cooler and supplied to the boiler by a pump j. The cooling water is circulated by a pump l through the cooler and through surface apparatus consisting of upper and lower chambers l, q connected by tubes n over which air is drawn by a fan R. Water trickles down the outside of the tubes n from a chamber m in communication with the main feed tank. Specification 271,928 also is referred to.
Patent GB-294911-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the production of cellulose ester resin lacquers
IPC: C09D101/18
Filed: 1927-04-29
Abstract: 294,911. Johnson, J. Y., (I. G. Farbenindustrie Akt.-Ges.). April 29, 1927. Right to Patent relinquished. Varnishes.-Hard resins such as copals are incorporated with cellulose ester lacquers by the aid of softening agents other than fixed oils. Suitable resins are those which possess at least the same or greater hardness than hard Manila copal, and include Zanzibar, Lindi, red Angola, old Sierra Leone, Benzuela or Cameroon copals and suitable artificial resins such as those known under the Trade Mark "Albertol." Suitable softening agents include camphor, tri-aryl phosphates and neutral phthalates of aliphatic alcohols having 2-5 carbon atoms. Other resins such as ester resins, colouring or filling materials may be added. In examples (1) Melted kauri copal is dissolved in benzene, toluene and xylene, and the filtered solution is added to a mixture of ethyl, n-butyl, hexyl, and cyclohexanol acetates with amyl, benzyl butyl and ethyl alcohols. Nitrocellulose and tricresyl phosphate are added. (2) Melted Congo copal is dissolved in benzene, toluene and xylene. An ester resin is dissolved in benzene, toluene, xylene, ethyl and butyl alcohols. The two resins solutions are mixed and ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, cyclohexanol acetate, ethyl and amyl alcohols, are added. Tricresyl phosphate and nitrocellulose are dissolved in the whole. (3) Artificial resin marketed under the Trade Mark "Albertol 103 C." is dissolved in benzene, toluene and xylene, and mixed with a solution of nitro-cellulose and di-isobutyl phthalate in ethyl, butyl, hexyl, and cyclohexyl acetates and amyl, butyl and ethyl alcohols. Proportions are given in each case. Specification 12664/90 is referred to.
Patent GB-1216714-A (GB)
Title: Ampicillin trihydrate
IPC: C07D499/68
Filed: 1968-03-08
Abstract: 1,216,714. Ampicillin trihydrate. ANKERFARM S.p.A. 8 March, 1968 [8 March, 1967], No. 11528/68. Heading C2A. Ampicillin trihydrate is prepared by precipitating ampicillin in the form of a hydrate thereof containing at least one but less than three molecules of water per molecule of ampicillin from a solution of ampicillin in an aqueous water-miscible polar organic solvent medium, said medium containing up to 20% by volume of water and subsequently treating the resulting precipitate with an excess of water to produce ampicillin trihydrate. Ampicillin may be dissolved in aqueous acetone at pH 1 to 4, clarified and an inorganic or organic base added to pH 4 to 7 until a precipitate forms. This is washed with an organic solvent and then treated with excess water in order to produce the trihydrate.
Patent GB-417771-A (GB)
Title: Device for trueing profiled grinding discs
IPC: B24B53/07
Filed: 1934-04-17
Abstract: 417,771. Trueing grinding-wheels. FAIRBROTHER, H., 30, Ludgate Hill, London.-(Reishauer-Werkzeuge, Akt.-Ges. ; 87, Limmatstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland.) April 17, 1934, No. 11575. [Classes 60 and 124.] In a device comprising a tool 7 for trueing a grinding wheel 2 having a grooved or screwthread profile, the tool itself being formed with a single-pitch thread of converse profile to the grooves or thread on the wheel 2, and receiving after each complete revolution a backward axial movement equal to the pitch of the grooves or thread, the axial movement of the tool 7 is effected by a cam 6 rotating with the tool and held in contact with a fixed cam 4 by a spring or other elastic means 8 ; further, a recess 9 is formed in the periphery of the tool at the point which would be in contact with the wheel 2 during the return movement, in order to allow such movement to occur. The tool is rotated by its contact with the wheel 2, and to ensure continuance of the rotation whilst the recess 9 is adjacent the wheel a rubber insertion may be placed in the recess, or a mechanical auxiliary drive may be provided. Where the wheel 2 has a screw thread profile, the disc receives an axial movement having a definite ratio to the speed of rotation of the wheel and the desired pitch.
Patent GB-790905-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to portable screens or windshields
IPC: E04H15/00
Filed: 1955-04-22
Abstract: 790,905. Shelter convertible into a bag. BELL, J..J. July 20, 1956 [April 22. 1955], No. 11613/55. Class 20(1) [Also in Group XVII] A 3-sided portable screen or windshield of canvas. nylon, polythene &c. supported by posts 12 in fabric loops, can be folded. as in Fig. 2 to form an open mouthed bag Fig. 3 in which the posts form stiffeners for the bag. To convert into a bag the sharp ends of the posts are removed and lowered in loops and the posts are housed in their loops to allow the top of the canvas to be folded along the line 20. Half of the ends is then rolled up on its particular post and tabbed in this position. The back is then folded on itself into 1/3 of its length all forming 3 sides of the bag. The ends are closed by other flaps 16. 17 which were originally secured at one edge to the back of the sheet, and are now secured in end position by press fasteners. Cords 33 originally fixed in holes 32 in the sheet, then form the handles.
Patent GB-1279996-A (GB)
Title: Bottle loading apparatus
IPC: B08B9/44
Filed: 1969-09-02
Abstract: 1279996 Feeding bottles between endless conveyers MITSUBISHI JUKOGYO KK 2 Sept 1969 [31 Aug 1968] 11736/71 Divided out of 1279997 Heading B8A A bottle loading apparatus, for loading bottles into a carrier of a bottle processing apparatus, comprises guide means for receiving and guiding into the carrier, a row of bottles from a bottle conveyer, transfer means for pushing the bottles along the guide means towards the carrier and thereafter along movable bridge means positioned between the carrier and a discharge end of the guide means, the bridge means supporting the lower side surfaces of the bottles as the bottles are transferred from said guide means to said carrier. The description is the same as that in Application 11739/71, but the claims differ.
Patent GB-117724-A (GB)
IPC: B65H57/00
Abstract: 117,724. Brooks & Doxey, and Goodbehere, E. Sept. 17, 1917. Thread-guides.-The pot or porcelain eye A is secured by a spring D upon a holder B formed from a single piece or stamping of sheet metal and secured by means of a clamping-plate c and screw E to the traverse rods C. The holder B is formed from a blank of the shape shown in Fig. 4, having a pair of ears b which are bent upwards to grip the pot eve and a second pair of ears b<1> which are bent downwards to form guides for positioning the holder upon the traverse rods. The end b<2> of the blank is bent upon itself to form a. loop or hinge for the wire spring D, which is bent as shown so as to snap against and hold the pot eye in position. The wire spring may also be shaped so as to form a guide for directing the thread into the slit or eye of the pot guide.
Patent GB-273436-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to fire extinguisher release valves
IPC: A62C13/00
Filed: 1926-05-05
Abstract: 273,436. Peasgood, F., and Stanton, H. B. May 5, 1926. Portable pressure reservoirs; sprinklers, automatic.-An extinguisher A charged with gas or liquid under pressure has an outlet b<1>, F closed by a needle valve G operable by a handle J. The needle valve has a longitudinal bore g<1> open at its lower end to the dip pipe C and closed at its upper end by a soldered cap N guided in a frame K. In case of fire, the needle valve may be opened, or the heat will melt the solder allowing the liquid to force out the cap N. The needle valve screws into a socket D screwed on to a boss B brazed in the top of the extinguisher. The frame K may be replaced. by a globe having one or more holes to direct the issuing liquid.
Patent GB-421709-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of indiarubber balls
IPC: B29C65/02
Filed: 1934-04-19
Abstract: 421,709. Making indiarubber balls. SOC. ITALIANA PIRELLI, 21, Via Fabio Filzi, Milan, Italy. April 19, 1934, No. 11834. Convention date, April 19, 1933. [Class 132 (ii)] A closed tubular blank for use in the manufacture of hollow or solid indiarubber balls is made by placing in a tubular mould 4 a preformed tube 5 of unvulcanized rubber, forcing a conical or spherical mould into the overhanging ends of the tube so as to form edge flanges, and finally, after introducing a swelling or filling charge into the tube, pressing two discs 12, 13 of unvulcanized rubber against the said flanges by means of axially movable plates 6, 7, excess rubber being cut-off by the bevelled ends of the mould 4. The removed blank is then vulcanized, as usual, in a spherical mould. The mould 4 is formed in two or more separable parts provided with suction grooves 10 to hold the tube in place. Suction grooves may also be provided in the plates 6, 7 to hold the discs 12, 13 in position. The plates 6, 7 may be convex or concave.
Patent GB-1208775-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to respiratory apparatus
Inventor: FREEMAN MAURICE FREDERICK
IPC: A61M16/20
Filed: 1967-03-14
Abstract: 1,208,775. Respiratory appliances. H. G. EAST & CO. Ltd. 14 Nov., 1967 [14 March, 1967], No. 11857/67. Heading A5T. [Also in Division F2] A valve for artificial respiration apparatus operable in response to pressure differentials between the patients lungs, a gas inlet and an exhaust, to alternately induce inhalation and permit exhalation comprises a valve body 10 having a gas inlet 11, an outlet 12 to the patient and an exhaust 15, a control valve 22 being movable within the body in response to the pressure differentials to alternately interconnect the outlet 12 to the patient with the inlet 11 and the exhaust 15 respectively, the valve having on its inlet side a first area for closing the inlet and a second area communicating by apertures 27 with the exhaust side and being biassed to close the inlet by a manually adjustable permanent magnet 29 or magnetic member mounted in the inlet and a permanent magnet 25 or magnetic member supported by the valve 22. The adjustable magnet 29 is secured in an apertured plug 31 slidable in the inlet on rotation of an external sleeve 33 connected to the plug by a screw 34 which passes through a helical slot 35 in the valve body. The valve 22 is tubular and has radial flanges 23' which engage an enlarged central bore portion of the valve body. An apertured plate 23 at one end of the valve bears against an internal flange 17 in the valve body to close the inlet, the apertures 27 permitting flow of gas from the inlet to the outlet when the inlet is opened after exhalation of the patient, the exhaust outlet then being closed by the rim (28) at the other end of the valve 22. When the inlet is closed following an induced inhalation exhaled gas passes to the exhaust 15 through an annular slot 20 and an annular space 19 in the wall of the valve body.